Author: swans05

Footy’s funny. Sydney finished 15th last season with a 3-8 record after an injury riddled season – West Coast finished 13th with a 4 – 7 record after Daisy’s first year at the helm. Before this round the win-loss records were both 6-5 but the Eagles were favorites to win this one to make finals,...

Last week I pleaded for Essendon to free whatever offense they had them, for Wales to totally dominate the ruck and give their mids first use and to not stack the back line – so how’d they go? They weren’t too bad over the course of the game while watching the game but I think...

If you want the season from hell than Essendon is your team where they have managed to slide down the ladder after every round. Round 1 – 2nd, 293% / Round 2 – 4th, 210% / Round 3 – 4th, 191% / Round 4 – 7th, 131% / Round 5 – 8th, 96% / Round...

In what we hoped might be a contest, really wasn’t as North Melbourne put the sword to the Crows with the Roos having the first 13 scoring shots of the game and 16 of the first 18 into the 3rd quarter. The Saints are on a run at the moment (6 in a row) where...

West Coast put an end to the Cats finals hopes in a rather lopsided win in the end. If the Eagles manage to make finals,they’ll have earned it more than anyone after facing Geelong, Sydney and Carlton in the final 3 rounds  – all teams vying for finals themselves. Daisy has as much buy-in as...

Port pulled off a sorta upset by defeating the Hawks who were without a 1st string ruck after Wales pulled out pre-game and killing my Supercoach team at the same time. Also being a tier-1 mid in Bates, the Hawks just didn’t have the depth and although they were -21 in hot outs, they were...

A couple of weeks ago I posted part 1 of this series that looked at different motor learning concepts/terms and how they pertain to footy, specifically scheduling (block v random), explicit v implicit learning, focus of attention, challenge point framework and feedback. Today we look a bunch more as we go off the mantra, you...

North are, and will continue to be, North Melbourne – they’re more of a chance to go undefeated and win the premiership than not which s quite ridiculous. With Essendon and Port, Richmond have not been anywhere close to repeating their finals positioning from a season ago and even with encouraging performances in the last...

After yesterday’s center bounce clearance special game analysis post, we dove deeper into round 9 in our next 2 posts. The Dogs have now scored 60pts in 2 out of their last 3 games after being one of the lowest scoring teams in the AFLW so far this season – albeit against Collingwood and Essendon...

In past years there has only been a smattering of center bounce clearance set plays and most of them have been from North Melbourne who had the most dominant tap ruck in Emma King to go along with their star-studded midfield. Most teams now have established rucks rather then converted basketball, netball and volleyball players...